assign

Definitions

vassignselect something or someone for a specific purpose"The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise"

vassignattribute or credit to"We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare","People impute great cleverness to cats"

vassigndecide as to where something belongs in a scheme"The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class"

vassignattribute or give"She put too much emphasis on her the last statement","He put all his efforts into this job","The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"

vassigntransfer one's right to

vassigngive out"We were assigned new uniforms"

vassignmake undue claims to having

vassigngive an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Interesting fact:
In the 13th century, quality standards for paste were assigned by the Pope

nAssign(Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns
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nAssignA thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance."Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns , as girdles, hangers, and so."

AssignTo appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over."In the order I assign to them.""The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .""He assigned to his men their several posts."

AssignTo fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
"All as the dwarf the way to her assigned .""It is not easy to assign a period more eventful."

v. iAssign(Law) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust.

Assign(Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
In the 1940s, the FCC assigned television's Channel 1 to mobile Services(two-way radios in taxicabs, for instance) but did not re-number theotherchannel assignments. That is why your TV set has channels 2 and up, butnochannel 1.

assignTo set apart; make over by distribution or appropriation; apportion; allot.

assignTo point out; show; designate; specify.

assignTo give, furnish, or specify: as, to assign a reason for anything.

assignTo appoint; select for a duty or office: as, the officer assigned to the charge of a military department.

assignTo ascribe; attribute; refer.

assignIn law: To transfer or make over to another the right one has in any object, as in an estate, chose in action, or reversion, especially in trust for the security of creditors: rarely applied to testamentary transfers. To show or set forth with particularity: as, to assign error in a writ; to assign false judgment, To point out or substantiate as a charge: as, perjury cannot be assigned on an oath taken without the jurisdiction of the officer administering it.

nassignA person to whom the property or interest of another is or may be transferred: as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

nassign[Assign is a broader word than assignee. The assignees of a person are usually understood to mean those who take immediately from him, by his assignment; the assigns of a person include all who acquire title under his transfer, immediately or remotely.]

nassignA thing pertaining to something else; an appurtenance; an appendage.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
The first nation to ally with the USA during the Persian Gulf war was Canada. However, their soldiers were deemed unfit for combat and assigned to guard duty.

v.tAssignas-sīn′ to sign or mark out to one: to allot: to appoint: to allege: to transfer: to ascribe or refer to: to suggest: to fix, as a time: to point out exactly

nAssignone to whom any property or right is made over:

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Quotations

Christian Nevell Bovee

“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”

Jan Patocka

“The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Do that which is assigned to you and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.”

Quentin Crisp

“Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?”

HE lobbies of Manhattan's luxury apartment buildings are considered plum assignments in the interior decorating trade: walk-through showcases for designers' work that are seen daily by residents and guests.

In science:

It has properties such as weakening where it may have unused assignments, strengthening where unused assignments can be removed, permutation where the order of assignments is irrelevant, and contraction where assignments can be used more than once.

From Syntactic Theories to Interpreters: A Specification Language and Its Compilation

In the same way we would not assign any physical reality to the lines of a Feynman diagram, we should not directly assign a physical meaning to the string world sheet.

Conformal field theory, boundary conditions and applications to string theory

One must assign boundary conditions to each of these boundary segments, and to each insertion point one must assign a boundary ﬁeld .

Conformal field theory, boundary conditions and applications to string theory

X G p,q as in Proposition 2.4: All vertices in inﬁnite connected components in X G p,q are assigned value r , whereas the vertices of each ﬁnite connected component C are assigned value σ(x), where x is the vertex in C that minimizes U ∗ (x).

Coupling and Bernoullicity in random-cluster and Potts models

We therefore depict a cat state by a line with n nodes on it, distinguishing the ﬁrst node from the others by by assigning a black circle to it compared with empty circles assigned to others (ﬁg. (2)).

Entanglement Swapping of Generalized Cat States and Secret Sharing

Don’t assign it yet. ∗ Find the hit closest to the pro jected track ∗ If there is only one hit on that layer, assign it to the track. ∗ If the closest hit already belongs to another track, take the next closest hit.

A Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Pulsars, and the Application of Kalman Filters to Gamma-Ray Reconstruction

Assign it to the track. ∗ If the closest hit is unclaimed, assign it to the track. – Revise (“ﬁlter”) the pro jection of the state vector and C matrix in light of this measurement.

A Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts and Pulsars, and the Application of Kalman Filters to Gamma-Ray Reconstruction

Set Cover Dual: The dual problem is to assign non-negative weights to the elements so that the net weight assigned to the elements in any set is at most one.

Randomized Rounding without Solving the Linear Program

Let us look what happens to the Hamming distance between the true assignment (110 in the example of Eq. (34)) and the current assignment of the algorithm when we come to ﬂipping Xi or Xj .

Quantum random walks - an introductory overview

In this case the Hamming distance between the new assignment and the true assignment has decreased by 1.

Quantum random walks - an introductory overview

An independent set of k matrix positions will also be called a k-assignment. A random assignment problem, or RAP for short, is given by a number k , and an m by n matrix (min(m, n) ≥ k) of random variables.

A Proof of Parisi's Conjecture on the Random Assignment Problem

If two k-assignments µ and ν differ only at zero positions we say that µ and ν are equivalent, µ ≡ ν . A deterministic assignment problem is semi-generic if there is exactly one nontrivial sum of nonzero elements that equals a sum of a distinct set of nonzero elements.

A Proof of Parisi's Conjecture on the Random Assignment Problem

Let µ be an optimal k-assignment that uses (r2 , c2 ), and suppose that there is an optimal k-assignment ν that uses (r2 , c1 ).

A Proof of Parisi's Conjecture on the Random Assignment Problem

Let A be a semi-generic deterministic assignment problem, and suppose that there are two non-equivalent optimal k-assignments µ and ν .

A Proof of Parisi's Conjecture on the Random Assignment Problem

An “assignment” of these variables consists of setting each Xi to either 1 (True) or 0 (False); we may write an assignment as a vector ~X ∈ {0, 1}n . k -sat is well understood.